The following is from a Long family genealogy compiled by Charles Alexander Long in 1958.Thomas Long. Born Oct. 22, 1808 in Abingdon, Virginia. Died April 18, 1900 at the home of his brother, William H. Long, Jr. and is buried in Henry Boswell Cemetery. Thomas was married Jan. 30, 1842 to Elizabeth Ann McDonald. She was born Jan. 29, 1817 in Georgia and died Feb. 13, 1885 and is buried in Boswell Cemetery. She was the Daughter of William C. McDonald who was born in Scotland and Ruby Jane Wilson, who were married in Georgia Feg. 28, 1813. . . Thomas and Elizabeth Ann - along with his brother, William H., Jr. and wife- settled on the main fork of Oak Tupper Creek, near Pushmataha, Choctaw County, Alabama. William and family remained there, but typhoid claimed the lives of two of Thomas's daughters and almost took other members of the family, so he moved his family to the other branch of Oak Tupper. He built his house near a spring in 1856. Choctaw Indians at various times would camp around the spring and thir children would play with the Long children.
